May 2021 Newsletter Kia ora and welcome to our May 2021 newsletter. A lot of exciting things have happened here at Bay Conservation Alliance and across the network since we last communicated. Bay Conservation Cadets – Tauira Mahi has launched, the first intake is complete and we’re all geared up for intake 2. We have…

The intention of the report is to showcase the efforts of both BCA and our member groups work, throughout each year. It provides a collective story of community conservation in the Bay of Plenty outlining our successes, challenges and aspirations for the future. We hope you enjoy the report. 2019  Annual Report 2020  Annual Report

Article by: Ministry for the Environment & Bay Conservation Alliance Thursday 4th of March 2021 https://www.bayconservation.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MFE_JFN_BCC_HERO-video-1.mp4   Bay Conservation Cadets – Tauira Mahi programme video “Now I’m excited to go to work, and I feel like I’m actually making a difference in the world,” Bay Conservation Cadet, Nathan Wakely A $3.5 million grant from the…

Article by: Gavin Cherrie, Ōtanewainuku Kiwi Trust ([email protected])   Generous funding from the NZ Plant Conservation Network for increased numbers of sentinel traps has led to reduced possum numbers in the Ōtanewainuku forest in the western Bay of Plenty. Throughout 2020, 479 possums were trapped using the modified sentinels which is a pleasing result and…

Three weeks into his time as a conservation cadet, Paengaroa’s Levi Pouwhare is loving it. Levi is one of the 10-strong first intake into the Bay Conservation Alliance Cadets, a Government funded programme that is part of the Jobs for Nature scheme launched in the 2020 Budget. Levi had just finished an environmental diploma at…

An interview with… Michelle Elborn This month TMBC got to chat to Michelle Elborn, CEO of Bay Conservation Alliance about our new Cadet Programme, our efforts to grow community conservation and why she fell in love with New Zealand twenty years ago. Hers how it went…. How does BCA go about supporting and sustaining community…

“Bay Conservation Alliance, an organisation linking together 14 of the most significant community conservation groups in the Bay of Plenty, is very happy to announce that our innovative ‘Bay Conservation Cadets’ programme has been included in the first round of conservation focussed funding announced by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern last Sunday. The funding is…